Thank you so much for making this. I must admit I am so worried about climate change and loss of biodiversity. This is such a lovely antidote and inspiration to do what is in your possibilities 🙏
"The promise of this meadow" my goodness to say the least as your vision is a magnificent display of possibilities! ! The vision, the extensive clearing, preparing, planting and sowing is an effort, art and science as the sculptor chisels the marble slab, using hand tools to reveal the form and the internal vision of magnificent BEAUTY..... A WONDERFUL JOURNEY OF CONSTANT CHANGE AND INFINITE DELIGHTS.....
We have been working on our prairie for the last 7 years. We are always learning new things and techniques. Thanks for sharing the progress. Glad to see others with a passion for native prairies.
This was the best tour, it's just so beautiful. I'm glad you mentioned 9 acres, just about the same time I was wondering. You guys have really made a gorgeous garden of your property. I can't imagine the wildlife you'll see over the coming yrs, build it and they will come 😊
You have made such great progress on your beautiful property in two years. The meadows are so full of life and wild beauty...with pops of colors and textures. The wildlife, birds and insects are appreciating it! The soft, reddish low grasses in the beginning of the video are very beautiful...very delicate, almost reminds me of smokebush blooms. The paths are very nice to walk through and just be in nature. The hard work is paying off! Thank you..🌻🥀
The meadow is absolutely beautiful. The one thing I would say is that from what we've seen, to me it felt like the meadow was a highway and not a destination as there's nowhere encouraging you to sit back and take it all in like you have in the borders around your home. I don't know if maybe mowing small paths into the meadow and having small seating areas in the midst of it might make it feel more like a destination? Either way, it's beautiful and it's incredible what you've achieved and I swear I'm not at all jealous 😂😂
Great to see the work you are doing! I am rewilding a suburban yard in the Houston area and it comes with its own challenges. Thank you for caring about the birds and Insects and sharing your passion with the world!
Awesome Summer! The hard work and dedication you guys have put into the land is paying off exponentially! It is truly inspirational! Thanks for bringing all of us along on this adventure!
Really outstanding Summer. It’s so satisfying to see that kind of progress. Hopefully some aggressive native thugs will push out some of the non natives.
Wow bravo !! It is looking superb already ! There is nothing quite so exciting and magical as meadow gardening. You will have constant suprises and delights every year now. And having such a huge area is even more effective ! Glorious !!
The forage grass I think is reed canary grass. I live east of Cayuga lake and I also work to keep it down. Your meadow looks great. The wild bergamot is such a treasure
It may very well be. We couldn't get the tractor on around 2 acres of the 9-acre meadow, particularly on the sloped areas, so that's where it's prominent and it's a beast! Would definitely make great hay! And our hope is that bergamont spreads, spreads, spreads. It's lovely and the bees seem to adore it.
I really admire your ambition with your land, you're so thorough with your planning and I love how this area is coming together, with some plants showing up earlier than expected. I bet those lupins were beautiful en masse.
Very cool project! So interesting to see how even native plants jostle with each other for space. I do not know if it is all lupines, I grew up out West where we have quite a number of species, but some are allelopathic... which basically just means that they will either kill off roots of competing plants or prevent seeds from germinating. In some Western states, they are used to battle non-native weeds by establishing a patch and letting the allelopathic lupines start to neutralize the weeds.
Absolutely stunning. Loved seeing the progress. We have a small field in Michigan that I am slowly adding natives to. I have invasive Russian Olive and Black Locusts that want to take over everything along with a bountiful crop of poison ivy too.
Inspiring and heartwarming. The birds and insects thank you ! I hope people get out and do this kind of transition on any level and on any size 9 acres or 9 square feet. It's so worth the effort !
Serenity and peaceful, it’s ever so beautiful and comforting. Mentally, I can just imagine smelling the flowers 🌸 🌺 and seeing 🐝 nature is so amazing and beautiful, soothing to the soul. Thank you for sharing give me the chance to allow my imagination on walking through there. God creation is beautiful, keeps me grateful and thankful I could sit there for hours ❤❤❤😊
In the U.K. if our meadows are suffering from aggressive grasses we sow “ Yellow Rattle” which is parasitic on grasses . This helps to keep the grasses in control .
The photography in your videos is amazing! I particularly like the shots from your drone. You also do a great job of editing. Whenever a new video becomes available I make time to watch it. Thanks for all your hard work.
I've seen the wild Bergamotte growing on the sides of quieter streets here. It looks like a flower which belongs in a garden. I am happy to know that it is wild. It's a tough life out there. Thanks for the shimmering meadow update. 🎉
The meadow is simply ah inspiring.!! Along with the cool dress.. Question for you .. What is your educational background ? All the planning and your know how is outta this world!
Good to know I need to be extra patient with my Echinacea😄 Just got Fatal Attraction which was new in stock last weekend at my local nursery, saw the plant in an earlier episode and knew I wanted it haha
We were actually surprised to see it pop up before the 2-year mark. It's short, however, so we imagine it'll start putting on height next year. That's more or less what it did in the pollinator garden we have here too. Good luck! The 'Fatal Attraction' cultivar is a beauty! Nice and compact for smaller spaces.
Looks great. I think I saw some sochan in there - incredible green for the table. Did you all put any Helianthus tuberosus out? Good work, love to see it!
I read that toxins (lupinine) in lupin pollen cause bumblebees to produce fewer offspring. I wonder how well they know to avoid them and how much we affect the amount of insects with the plant choices like this. Would be an interesting video subject too!
*honeybees which are native to Europe & Asia experience productions of fewer offspring, bumblebees can use lupin pollen & not have the same experience.
@@merip7826 Ah I found it. It does reduce their offspring & is toxic to honeybees. The caffeine in citrus nectar improving the negative effects of lupin were interesting too, I was unaware that caffeine was in citrus nectar.
What if you use a scythe to cut along the paths couple times a year, couple of meters both sides. You would give different plants a chance. Better for diversity.
What was result of the survey of the trips you may plan for all? I'm sure it wasn't a spam thing. Surve was about 5 months or so ? as to do nature trips together.
This video, did not even feel like fifteen minutes! You should let scientists release insects an birds in your meadow ( for science )! It would help, in both ways! Even rehabilitated animals, could be released on your property! *I LOVE IT!* Using a once wasted space to add color, along with helping the environment! Would be cool to see scientific research on.. How the impact of improving the land, helps the air quality an other issues in the area!💙💚💛💜💛💚💙
Beautiful meadow, well done! 👍 I'm sure you've thought of this, but a few beehives right in the middle would be awesome! Acres of flowers, a water source (lakes), you'd have so much honey, wax, bee pollen, you'd be boring your neighbors trying to give it away!
THE MEADOW LOOKS BEAUTIFUL IS THERE A WAY TO CONTROL THE WILD CARROT PERHAPS JUST IN ONE AREA, TAKING SOME ELECTRIC HEDGE TRIMMERS AND REMOVING THE FLOWERS TO RELIEVE THE PRESSUE AND GIVE OTHER FLOWERS A CHANCE. NOT SEEING YOUR POPPIES WHAT HAPPENED?
We felt as if we didn't need to plant milkweed because that's already quite prolific in the meadow and landscape and should seed itself naturally (vs. having to buy seed in)....Inventorying what is already on the land is important because it'll give you a sense of what may already be seeding.
Thank you for the response. I’m originally from that area, closer to Rochester, and was surprised not to see any in the incredible video. I look forward to watching more and again thank you for the response.
Great video,get rid of the Queen Anne's lace (wild carrot) can be VERY INVASIVE and isn't native.Try planting more NATIVE asters like New York Aster and some Common Milkweed.
Lovely meadow but I'm curious why there's no common milkweed (or if I missed it). It is a host for a lot of cool insects, not just monarch butterflies.
Jeez, I wish I was rich and could donate $1M for you to use as you wish! Personally, I kinda don't mind if you three spent $950,000 on personal things, like holidays, clothes, chickens, irrigation systems or greenhouses! Who cares?! But I'm not a millionaire, or a billionaire, or even rich. Sorry. I love what you are doing, I love that you are using mainly native plants, encouraging pollinators, birds, mammals, invertebrates etc *AND* educating people all over the world to do what you are doing, by example, and what is right for their environment, wherever they may be. Inspirational. I hope some American multi-billionaire (c'mon, Jeff!) recognises what you are doing for the world (mainly because I struggle from month to month, like many others, and can't afford to help ...)
